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Have you noticed that you don't remember your first memory or where you came from ? You can go as far as to remember your first day at school and your first dream etc but you can't actually remember the very first spark of consciousness that you ever experienced in your life ? Like when exactly did you become aware that you are aware ? so why exactly you can't remember your first memory? It's Because there can't be a first distinct one. It's like if you have a spectrum of the different degrees of the color yellow slowly shifting into orange.. Can you actually pinpoint where exactly does yellow "completely" turn into orange?? Of course you can't because it's a spectrum.. It's all yellow and it's all orange simultaneously but in different degrees. You can't remember your "first" memory because there never was one! How could you say that this particular event was my first memory without a frame of reference? That is a prior experience to that to judge what's before and what's after that event.. And so you will keep looking for something prior and prior and it's infinite regress.. You can't determine the exact point that awareness popped at. Just like in dreams at night.. You can't say when does the dream begin or what was the first appearance in the dream.. It just begins with no beginning!!

If you wonder why does evil shit happen all over the world and in your own life..it's because its inevitable. It's a nesscary part of absolute infinity. Which by it's very nature includes absolutely everything. So it's not all rosy and shiny. It also contains horror and shit . Absolute infinity must include every thing .including this human life that you're living right now with all the suffering and the shit you are going through. the term "absolute infinity" was originally coined by the mathematician Georg cantor.. Not Leo. (look him up) Some infinities are larger than others. For example.. The positive real numbers are infinite.. Yet if we include the negative real numbers we get.. Paradoxically.. A larger infinity. But that's just numbers.. Same thing applies to colors.. Sounds.. Dimensions.. Feelings.. Etc Take the largest infinity. Not the partial ones. Take the infinity of all possible infinities...... And that is what is known as absolute infinity. Georg cantor himself equated that with GOD. You might ask Is reality absolutely infinite? How is this possible? Well, how is it possible that reality could be finite?? Every limitation you imagine upon reality must be imposed by a larger limitation. And so on to infinity. So reality ends up being absolutely infinite. In all possible ways conceivable or inconceivable. And that's it. reality is infinite forms. Infinite images. Infinite consciousness. Label it however you want. But you get the idea. Imagine right now any possible image.. Anything.. I don't care how crazy it is.. That thing exists. And everything you can possibly imagine exists. And it can happen. If you can imagine it.. It is real. That's the rule

Because infinity.

@Nilsi be respectful bro .

@Breakingthewall thanks bro. I always appreciate your comments on my threads. that being said..are you hinting at psychedelics? Because I can't obtain them cuz they are illegal in India. And I don't know how to search for them in the dark web. I also don't want to get into legal issue. Anyways ..in my opinion The only way to reach enlightenment is to do so without drugs. Enlightenment is not about knowing, seeing, experiencing. Enlightenment is about becoming. Drugs help to see and experience, some people claim. Even if this were true, and I have no reason to believe it is, this drug-induced seeing and experiencing results in knowing. When it comes to enlightenment, the only way to become it is to not know it. Knowing is the biggest hurdle on the path to enlightenment. Knowing what enlightenment is is the most effective way to prevent enlightenment. If drugs make one know what enlightenment is, then drugs prevent becoming enlightened. When you truly experience enlightenment you realize that you are Infinite, Immortal Consciousness and that you always have been and always will be. You have never really been anything else. You have never really been a mortal, individual, personality, ego or human being. To experience this you must completely surrender this personality. You must dissolve into the Infinite, Immortal Sea of Consciousness that you are and always have been. You must do this as if nothing else matters. Nothing.

@Nilsi The problem is im expecting someone else to hire me in order to practice philosophy and make a living doing so. And the answer is no, i don’t need to have work to be a philosopher. I need to be a philosopher to get work. Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. If I'm talking about monetizing philosophy than well i need to do exactely that. Find a way to monetize it. Write a book. Sell it. Talk on YouTube, or blog or something and monetize it any number of ways people monetize their YouTube channel or blogs. But I haven't figured out yet how to do that. But anyways that's not the essential problem in my life is that I can't follow my passion . I mentioned other things as well . I'm physically sick of life and it's constant challenges and the need to improve ourselves. Like it seems like a lot of effort for what ? For nothing. You probably gonna die and never wake up again and consciousness might disappear forever. You know ..you always get in life what you put into it .and I'm not putting much. So I'm not getting much. Other than a mediocre life .

Always fun to do a mental masturbation on absolute infinity. Let me set you up before we proceed. Think and imagine deeply what IS absolute infinity and what could we find in it? it has EVERYTHING. So it must mean there is a place where I am in my current ego state and at the same time in creator mode (basically paradise). I would summon and experience whatever I want while doing it from this body and through being this human I currently am. Nice. it also must mean there is a place where I am experiencing 10 thousand years or non-stop torture (basically hell)? Not nice. Now with this logic you can be absolutely sure that there is an anthropomorphic entity watching every second of your life on its TV. Why would it not be in the infinity? Wave your hand and say hi I think you get where I'm going with this .

Because infinity includes every single possibility. It's loaded with infinite potential that must be actualized . There is no escaping infinity. False. I gave a clear example..the positive real numbers are infinte ..and if we add the negative real numbers it would still be infinite .but it's larger than the infinity of positive numbers . There are many degrees to infinity. The infinity of all possible infinities is the largest one .and its called absolute infinity. That's what Georg cantor discovered. Because the possibility of limitations is itself part of absolute infinity. If infinity didn't include limitations it would not be infinite.

Is it 6 or 9?(see the picture below). Its both depending on where are you standing. And of course it's not just 6 or 9..if we Zoom into it we shall find all the numbers combined together in that symbol. So it's actually infinity. And only appears as 6 or 9 relative to the observation. The truth is not isolated. It's intertwined with the observer. When looking for the truth.. One should make a distinction between the Truth.. And his own truth. The Truth is always infinite. While one's own truth is one's own perspective and POV. Always partial Of course most of you are familiar with the parable of the elephant and the six blind men ... As Leo said "the elephant is infinity" its every possible perspective and POV that it can be looked at from. Six blind men came across a large elephant one day that was strolling through their village. Having never seen an elephant before. each of the six men placed their palms upon the elephant to help them experience what was in front of them. The first man argued that the elephant felt like a large pillar. as he touched the elephants leg. The second man argued that the elephant felt like a large tree... as he touched the elephants trunk. The next man argued that the elephant felt like a long rope. ... as he touched the elephants tail. The fourth man argued that the elephant felt like a huge wall. ... as he touched the belly of the elephant. The other man argued that the elephant felt like a big fan... as he touched the ear of the elephant. And the sixth man argued that the elephant felt like a long hard pipe... as he touched the tusk of the elephant. Each of the blind men believed that they were right. All of them continued to argue among themselves as each thought they knew what was in front of them. Until one man. who was watching the group from afar... called out to the blind men. “The elephant is a large animal“. THE MEANING OF THE STORY This one story has many layers of meaning to it! What you experience in life is a reflection of your own perception and perspective. Your mind creates your reality in the sense that you do not always see things as ‘they’ are. You instead see things as ‘You’ are. Your perception of what’s in front of you is determined by the information already within your head. Your ideas... beliefs.. concepts... knowledge and thoughts all influence what you see in front of you... and how you experience it. How you interpret and understand something.. or someone.. depends upon the thoughts and beliefs you have accepted to be true. This is true whether we’re talking about a person.. a thing.. spirituality.. God.. or of course a religion. In the exact same e way the blind men all felt they were touching something different.. yet they were all touching the same thing.. different cultures and religions see the meaning of this story differently. The same can be said of how the worlds religions see God. All of the worlds major religions believe in.. and worship.. the same thing. . However none of these religions agree upon the fine details of what God means. Each has different customs.. different practices.. different dogmas and different beliefs. Yet all the people of these religions are experiencing the same thing.. God. while arguing and dividing themselves from one another due to a difference of perception. There are many pathways that lead up a mountain. And every traveler on those many different paths see the same mountain from a different perspective. While each path looks different to them... they are all looking at the same mountain. This is true from a religious perspective. There are many roots to God and Enlightenment. If humanity took an inclusive approach to life.. rather than a divisive approach... we would all have a fuller picture as to how to get there quicker.

According to scientists.. Our universe was created when two superstrings collided. Our universe is one of an infinite number.. basically a bubble in a soup of pure energy. Our universe is the result of another universe being sucked up into a massive black hole.. and shit out the other end.. all in an endless cycle. So this present moment is both the uncaused beginning and the never ending end. And everything in between. The universe started as pure formlessness..a singularity of pure infinte potential. And then it spawned forms and it will keep spawning forms endlessly. Whether or not it will end and collapse back into pure void or not remains a mystery.

Yeah I just don't see how more than one consciousness can be displayed at a time. I think the universe can only give vision, colors, and thoughts to one person at a time. But I believe all of life shares one being's life anyway. I feel like the universe can only be like one tv screen for everyone's eyes to look at, but inside same body.

I think i get this. This is quite hard to explain or understand unless you have thought of it. I could also ask this question..its like the world is revolving around me because quite literally eveything I physically see is from my own perspective. Its not because of being self centered but somehow a realization of existence. Is this what you mean? Ive been asking myself this ever since I was little. It is quite scary to look at.

Interesting. So I have a few questions about that . where exactly is this "highest POV" ..? Like did you capture it in a jar or something? All I'm seeing is my limited little ego POV which can taste the ice cream and taste the dog shit and the tongue will response as "pleasure =good " on one hand and "disgusting =bad " on the other hand . I understand that I'm thinking the difference between ice cream and dog shit ..but I don't feel like I'm responsible for creating that distinction. It feels like an objective distinction. Like that's just how reality is . It's a given. When we create an imaginary world inside our head, we simultaneously disconnect ourselves from reality. This is simply because our mind can do either of the two at one time .it can either reflect the reality it perceives, or create a reality of its own, not both. Now, what impact our imagination will have on us depends on external factors after all, by itself imagination is not absolute. It is our creation of ideas. Depending on the ideas I choose to create, I will be impacted accordingly.

@Leo Gura is there a fast and easy way to realize metaphysical love (I guess it's synonymous with Goodness with a Capital G) directly? Because I had awakenings into no-self and solipsism and even God consciousness..but I'm still struggling to understand that reality is pure goodness ...to me it seems like reality is neutral . I remember you define Love as the realization that there is no difference between anything. How does that work? Are you talking from the universe's perspective or the ego's perspective? Like isn't there objective difference between vanilla ice cream and a pile of dog shit ?

@Chanratt reality is an infinite fractal . You can zoom into a molecule( or any physical object for that matter) forever. Reality has no limits ..because anything that could limit it should sit outside of it ..and so on to infinity. So reality ends up being absolutely infinite. In all directions and all dimensions. I made this thread explaining infinity,so you might find it interesting and thought-provoking.

Are you talking about pure consciousness ? Because its a state of mind, where you are free from all the mind activities. The nature of the mind is to think thoughts, imagine things, accumulate experiences, and impressions and create a circle of thoughts out of it. Pure consciousness is the purest state of mind. When the mind becomes a witness and no experiences or impressions remains on the surface of the mind, you experience the mind as pure consciousness. When one can feel and experience the emptiness of the mind .. all activities of the mind comes to ‘zero’ and all the worldly phenomenon like day , night, hunger , other emotional parameters- become irrelevant etc .. the person is said to be on the state of ‘pure consciousness'. Or am I misinterpreting what you're saying? Certainly pure consciousness devoid of content is possible .but that's a state that only advanced meditators can do ..and honestly I don't have much direct experience with such thing ..so I better not speak about what I'm clueless about .

Being a man is difficult. Being ‘male’ can be a matter of fact, but being a man feels more like a matter of opinion. A lot of what relates to being a man can be both suffocating and unattainable. Being a man in 2022 means being comfortable with a much broader idea of masculinity. The ideas about what makes a man feel a lot less restrictive than they were in the past. It‘s much more acceptable for men to openly express their emotions, talk about how we’re feeling, be caring and not fit into traditional ideas of what makes a man. There’s still a long way to go, but this is a really positive development in the right direction. In my opinion..Being a man to me means being unapologetically you. It means not being afraid to show the world who you are, exactly as you are. Being a man is never Being afraid to show your emotions, to be the little spoon and to ask for help when you need it. Being a man means rejecting toxic masculinity, embracing your weakness and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to be a man for you ? Is there a clear definition? Specific traits ? Should you be toxic and tough and hard nosed and irritating person to be a "real man "? Because that's the image society is trying to draw for what makes a perfect man . And others who lack these qualities are considered faggots or "beta " males. Curious about people's opinions on this topic .

I don't understand what you mean by that.

@_Archangel_ no .this applies to all kinds of Knowledge. It depends on the observer. Without perception..there is no truth. The question is: Is truth a matter of perception? Perceptions = Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling and thinking No perceptions = No consciousness = No self awareness = No observer= no Truth . Example: Deep sleep, coma and death. For all we know all of our perceptions are on autopilot without any consciousness selection. Nobody has even seen any perceiver standing apart all by himself totally separated from the perceptions. And therefore nobody has ever seen any wall that separates this imaginary perceiver and the perceived. And no one has seen a truth that is independent of consciousness/perception.

@_Archangel_ Often the truths we tell ourselves are merely fragments of the truth and sometimes they're not really true at all. For example, there are people who believe in God and others who don't. Some say God created everything while others believe in the concept of big bang and theory of evolution,so what is the truth? To believe in God or science. The answer is simple it's up to you what you want to believe. Things we see,we hear have a great impact on us,some we understand some we don't. Our this understanding level depends on depth of our knowledge. And yes it is a matter of perspective, after all everybody's understanding capacity and knowledge vary and so does the truth. People live their lives bound by what they accept as Correct and True. That's how they define “ Reality”. But what does it mean to be 'True' or 'Correct'? Merely vague concept. Someone's Reality can be just an Illusion to someone else. Can we consider then that people live in their own world shaped by their own beliefs. People used to believe it's not possible to hear a voice far away. But today we have made it possible, something that was not true then is true now. This all happened using human knowledge to invent telephone. Truth various from time to time and from person to person, it depends upon how vast our knowledge is regarding that subject. Knowledge is Truth. To know absolute truth we should know everything in this universe, which is beyond human capacity. Absolute truth is just a lie... Or wait who knows might be this concept be true in future

I think this is the most important topic i ever started In this forum so listen up . Today I want to solve a big dilemma and a big confusion that people have philosophically. Rene Descartes (the guy in my profile pic) talked about his evil demon doubt. And How he can't trust his senses because it can deceive him. If we dream and the dream world seems perfectly identical to the waking state ..then how do we know that we are not dreaming right now or in some sort of illusory world fabricated by our mind ? Inside the dream there is a complete universe. It has the appearance of depth and solidity that we also experience when we are awake. The laws of physics are sometimes different but not always .and we meet with people that we see in "real life ". However inside the dream, these things appear to be totally normal. They are all created by our mind. We can walk through forests and cities, lie on the beach or make love. We eat, drink and experience the full gamut of life. How can we tell that the waking experience is not a dream? How do we know for sure that when we sleep, that isn’t a waking up experience for another dreamer, the dreamer who is dreaming us? So the questioner can be phrased in this way: In exploring our direct experience, we might often wonder how much we can trust it. When one sees a mirage in a desert, if not aware of such a phenomenon, one would consider it to be real. Even though its not actually real. The definitive answer to this philosophical dilemma is as follows: It's quite right to suggest that nothing that appears within the mind, the body or the world can be completely trusted or relied upon. The short answer is: Only consciousness or being is certain. However, it is helpful to understand clearly why this is so, to prevent us from ever putting our trust in the wrong place again.. As I said in the dream state.. During a dream, our experience seems to have the same reality as that of our waking state. However, upon waking we discover that its apparent reality was illusory. How then, do we know that the current experience of the mind, body and world is not also illusory? We don’t! What then can we be absolutely certain of? To answer this question we first have to understand what it is that qualifies an experience as being illusory. How do we know that the water in the desert or the buildings in the dream are not real? It is the fact that when we go towards these objects or experiences and try to find them or touch them, they are not there. They have disappeared. The substance out of which we thought they were made is not present. If disappearance is the criterion by which we qualify something as being unreal, then presence without disappearance must be the criterion by which we qualify something as being real. Whatever it is that is truly present, and therefore real, in any experience cannot disappear, because that into which it would disappear would be more real than itself. Everything that appears and disappears must have a background or a support on which to appear. For instance, the screen doesn’t disappear when the image disappears, and in that sense it is more real than the image. Whatever it is that is real in every experience cannot change. For example, water is ‘more real’ than its changing forms of ice and steam. Whatever is real in any experience cannot appear or be born, because that from which it appeared or was born would be more real than itself, in the sense that gold is ‘more real’ than an ornament. And whatever is real in our experience must know or illumine itself, for if it were known or illumined by something other than itself, that ‘something’ (which knows it) would be more real than itself. Nevertheless, even if the experience of the mirage or the dream buildings turns out to be an illusion, there is an element of reality to our experience of it. There is ‘experience’, there is ‘something’, even if we are not sure what this ‘something’ is. What then is this undeniable ‘experiencing’ or ‘something’? What is it that is truly present in every experience? Whatever is truly real and present in our experience must be without appearance or disappearance; it must be changeless, that is, ever-present; and it must know itself. So we can now simplify our question and ask, is there anything in our experience that is ever-present, changeless and knowing? And the answer of course is yes, consciousness Only this ever-present, changeless consciousness can be absolutely trustworthy. An intermittent object cannot, by definition, be worthy of absolute trust, because on what would we place our trust when it was absent? Hold on to consciousness alone. However, what could hold on to that? Obviously an intermittent object, such as a personal entity, cannot hold on to the ever-present reality of our experience. So an apparent person cannot hold on to consciousness. consciousness alone can hold on to itself. It is the only ‘thing’ that is present ‘there’ throughout its own ever-presence. However, it is already itself, so there is no need for it to make an effort to hold on to itself. It cannot lose itself. It cannot ‘not be’ itself. Therefore, in order to know that element of our experience that is worthy of trust, all that is needed is to abide as the that we always already are. That is the only certainty, the true security. So in conclusion..consciousness or direct experience is the only trustworthy thing in existence and the only thing we know, or we will ever know about reality. And that's the absolute truth. Please share your thoughts about what has been said and if you have any questions ..feel free to ask .

@Raptorsin7 What you have to understand is that You can come up with the philosophical idea that you are God or that everyone on this planet is God. You can even come up with the philosophical idea that everyone will one day join their conscious minds together. None of those things I just mentioned can be disproven but it can not be proven either way,I say this because I know damn well that I am conscious of my own mind. I know damn well that I exist, and though you have to believe me when I say that, I too have to believe you when you say you’ve got a conscious mind. The Earth realm will always tell you that others have a conscious mind so long as they are alive (or not brain dead), but remember that if it can’t be proven, it is only considered a theory. It doesn’t mean we can disprove it, or prove it. Now, I will say on a philosophical note, that others have claimed to have experienced “God”, and that there more alarming signs of “God” than you can conceive of being the only one to exist as a conscious mind . because it is in my opinion to be a healthier alternative. With that, I end this answer with what you need to know and that is you’re the only conscious mind that exists and solipsism is true. Some how, some way, “you know my answer to be true”, and you’ll be okay. Because I'm you.

@Carl-Richard check out "a brief history of time " by Stephen hawking.

Why does this happen in the first place? Why do our brains run wild? I don't get insights from this sort of overthinking. I get them when my mind is calm which usually happens during the evening. But in the morning and afternoon my mind runs like a motherfucker. Naturally, introverts are thinkers. Sure, we are doers, too, but at least for me, there is an awful lot of contemplating before any doing. As an introvert, there is always a lot of inner narration going on in my mind throughout the day. I’m constantly looking for the meaning in things, and that involves asking a lot of questions, as I always want to know the whys and hows. However, the workings of my mind don’t simply end once I’ve finally exhausted every possibility of a thought and taken action. There is often even more introspection after the doing. I’m bombarded with re-runs of experiences and conversations like I’m watching a mental movie.